Daily Mail

BBC wins Christmas ratings war with ITV as under fire broadcaster claims nine out of ten top spots despite string of scandals

It may be embroiled in a number of controversies – but the BBC battered rival ITV in the Christmas Day ratings war. The Beeb occupied nine of the top ten spots for the most-watched festive television ...
GitHub

Rapid fuzzy string matching in C++ using the Levenshtein Distance

RapidFuzz is a fast string matching library for Python and C++, which is using the string similarity calculations from FuzzyWuzzy. However, there are two aspects that set RapidFuzz apart from ...
Rolling Stone

Billy Strings Makes His Debut on ‘Tiny Desk’ After Sending Audition Tape: ‘It Only Took 12 More Years’

Michigan bluegrass phenom Billy Strings and his band stopped by NPR’s Tiny Desk for a performance more than a decade in the making. Backed by his band — Alex Hargreaves on fiddle, backing vocalist ...
CNET

Best Outdoor String Lights for 2026: Illuminate Your Balcony, Patio, Backyard and More

Chris Wedel is a fan of all things tech and gadgets. Living in rural Kansas with his wife and two young boys makes finding ways to stay online tricky — not to mention making my homestead smarter.
WTHR

Bluegrass artist Billy Strings to perform 2 shows at Fishers Event Center next spring

Strings will be performing at the Fishers Event Center on Friday, April 24 and Saturday, April 25, 2026. The tour extension is in support of his latest full-length album, "Highway Prayers, which was ...
People

Billy Strings Says He's Still in 'Denial' Over His Mom's Shocking Cause of Death: 'It Was Just Unnecessary'

The bluegrass musician's mom Debra died of a drug overdose in June Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has ...
Taste of Country

Billy Strings Was Blindsided When He Learned His Mom’s Cause of Death

Billy Strings is opening up about the unexpected death of his mother, Debra Apostal, which happened in June. Strings — whose legal name is William Lee Apostal — says his mom wasn't sick leading up to ...
The Harvard Crimson

Cambridge Tightens Purse Strings, Considers Cutting Community Programs for Fiscal Year 2027

Cambridge leaders said they are preparing to make city-wide budget cuts to brace for what they believe will be a multi-year economic slowdown in a “sobering” round table meeting with the City Council ...
FierceBiotech

US government pumps money toward in vivo cell therapy programs

After axing a wide swath of federal research projects and grants, a recent slew of awards offers a glimpse into the kinds of science the second Trump administration wants to back: in vivo cell ...
Wall Street Journal

‘11,000 Strings’ Review: Georg Friedrich Haas’s Meditation

As I made my way out of the Park Avenue Armory after a performance of Georg Friedrich Haas’s “11,000 Strings” Saturday afternoon, a friend asked what I’d thought of what we’d just heard. For the ...
The New York Times

50 Pianos Rumble With the Sound of ‘11,000 Strings’

Performances in N.Y.C. Georg Friedrich Haas has written a piece of almost ridiculous scale and complexity. The effect is awe-inspiring. Georg Friedrich Haas has written a piece of almost ridiculous ...
Game Rant

What Does Spider Strings Do in Silksong

Hamza is a gaming enthusiast and a Writing Specialist from Pakistan. A firm believer in Keyboard/Mouse supremacy, he will play Tekken with WASD if you let him. He has been writing about games since ...